Budget

WE ALL KNOW that any democratically elected Governments are supposed to provide health and curative services to their populace by state funding. However in India, health care is still not with in the reach of major sections of the society, particularly the most marginalised ones. ...

NEW DELHI, February 1: IN A CLEAR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the crisis being faced by India's farmers, the Narendra Modi government finally capitulated and declared it will implement a key proviso of the MS Swaminathan Commission on Farmers of ensuring a Minimum Support Price for crops ...

In the government's annual budget presented in February, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had said cash transactions would be capped at three ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a petition to delay the annual Union Budget, which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is scheduled to deliver on February 1, dismissing concerns about potential giveaways ahead of critical state polls.

A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar refused ...

Refusing to relent on excise duty levy on non-silver jewellery goods, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said a "luxury item" cannot remain out of tax ambit when taxes need to be paid on many essentials.

"In view of representations received, the government would like to do a comprehensive review of this proposal and therefore I withdraw the proposal," Jaitley ...

Dear Mr. Jaitley

When you are in the opposition everything lofty sounds like a great objective for the government to achieve. Impossible is possible as long as someone else has to do it. But when in government, you need to deliver more than moral grandstanding.

Your inconsistencies ...

"There seems to be some amount of lack of understanding about the changes made in the General Budget 2016-17 in the tax treatment for recognised Provident Fund & NPS," the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday in a statement while issuing an 11-point clarification on the ...